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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Learning may become desirable some time or other; I should not wonder if this were to happen out of vanity; more men may have leisure after a time, and will be able to devote themselves to occupations which are their own reward...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO VOICES ARE THERE | 4/18/1928 | See Source »

...sort of thing that is bound to happen every so often south of the Potomac, where old hearts still harbor a bitterness elsewhere forgotten. The incident summarily dealt with by the Speaker would have attracted small notice but for one factor: among the contributors to the pamphlet was Lyon Gardiner Tyler. Onetime (1888-1919) President, now President Emeritus, of William and Mary College, Dr. Tyler is a son of John Tyler. John Tyler was tenth President of the U. S. Since the death of Robert Todd Lincoln (TIME, Aug. 2, 1926), Dr. Tyler is the oldest living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Tyler vs. Lincoln | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

...members of the House are such good sportsmen that, when what happened did happen they were really wrung with sympathy for bumptious Mr. Brand, after whose name in Who's Who appears the proud legend, "member of the Butter and Milk Commission under Herbert Hoover during the World War," but upon whose soul now rests the necessity of supporting the curious "boom" of his fellow Ohioan, Senator Willis. Never did a big butter-&-milk man undertake a braver job than attacking a once honored chief for the sake of a boss to whom he was now obligated. And never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Burnt Brand | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...work, and I am a worker. I want to get the children singing, to know my songs, and to know me, as I have their parents and their grandparents in all parts of the world. And if, in the course of this work. I happen to help some poor fellow over the top, that is my reward...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "I'm the Only One o' Its Kind in the Wurruld" Says Sir Harry Lauder-Scotch Humorist Talks of American People | 3/16/1928 | See Source »

What will happen next, and whether the road will take another unexpected turn, no two political experts quite agree. Lowden's candidacy has been approved by important Republican organizations in Illinois, Iowa, and Minnesota. In addition to this, the managers of the various Lowden-for-President clubs claim that their candidate will have the delegates of Missouri, Colorado, Indiana, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, and Wisconsin. This would give him a bloc of about three hundred delegates in the convention. The estimate is optimistic but not impossible. For, as Mark Sullivan has pointed out, the present disposition of Lowden...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Presidential Possibilities | 3/13/1928 | See Source »

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